skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Israel's government administers several territories with different legal statuses for their inhabitants:

Israeli citizens, including Arabs, Jews, and others within the borders recognized internationally as Israel, all have the right to vote.
Residents of East Jerusalem, mostly Palestinians, are typically offered permanent residency status but not citizenship. They have the right to apply for citizenship, though it involves a complex process. They can vote in local elections but not in national elections unless they become citizens.
Inhabitants of the West Bank are not Israeli citizens and do not have the right to vote in Israeli national elections. They are subject to some Israeli military law and some laws set by the Palestinian Authority.
Gaza Strip is governed by Hamas, and the inhabitants do not have rights to vote in Israeli elections. Israel does not have administrative control over Gaza but does control most of its borders, airspace, and maritime access.
Passing one significant whiteboard interview once is all you need, that's your "licensure."

Flip a coin whether I'll ace or fail a random leetcode question but after the one and only time my little monkey dance successfully got me into a "desireable" company, I started confidently rejecting other proposals to whiteboard me.
There's an old joke that works almost everywhere:

Have you heard about the new invention that will allow <insert name of local department for handling road work> to lay off 90% of its workers?

A shovel that stands up by itself.
Even more modern example: The little green men who seized Ukraine.
I think the market will move to using chips like this, or at least have additional options. The new Snapdragon SOC is interesting, and I would suspect we could see Google and Microsoft play in this space at some point soon.
The feature you are describing is a light well. They work, but I am not sure how well in the configuration you are describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightwell
If you want a GTK-based IDE experience there's always GNOME Builder. Like other modern GTK apps, it actually works quite well with custom GTK themes which provide a Win9x-like look (see the chicago95 and b00merang projects on github) if you want the better usability and higher information density that this enables.
This is what Triplebyte pretended to be. Then companies who got your resume from Triplebyte just whiteboarded you again anyway.
The iPod classic had 160 GB of storage fifteen years ago.

No device should be measuring storage in the gigabytes in 2024. Let alone starting at $1000 offering only 256GB. What ridiculousness.
This is quite upsetting, and yet not at all a surprise. We're taking the same damaging approach to power that we always have, but now with solar.

In addition to the sibling comments, another better approach is to blend solar with farming, to grow shade-loving crops and reduce evaporation. They'll still use pesticides, no doubt, but not more than ordinary farming.

https://theconversation.com/how-shading-crops-with-solar-pan...
Worst today, but I don't see that lasting long. Toyota tends to iterate and I wouldn't be surprised to see them dominate in the next 5 years. Unless it's just another "Compliance Car"
On a laptop it's not very practical.

Because you can't swap the motherboard, your options for CPUs are going to be quite limited. Generally, only higher-tier CPUs of that same generation - which draw more power and require more cooling.

Generally a laptop is built designed to provide a specific budget of power to the CPU and has a limited amount of cooling.

Even if you could swap out the CPU, it wouldn't work properly if the laptop couldn't provide the necessary power or cooling.
Read responses to this tweet: https://twitter.com/USAndMumbai/status/1787772852084830251

May be in the HN bubble "South Asia" is an expected term, very likely because HN crowd might be subjected to far left academia. But it is offensive and racist for actual Indians.
Something is very wrong about that 2 kWh / $ price: that seems closer to the cost of electricity rather than the cost of battery capacity.
Will it run on iGPU?
The tin news reader and weechat are nice.
I've never had any company let me write pseudocode. I once tried to write "vec" instead of "std::vector" and the interview told me to write valid code on the whiteboard. (And I did explain that I was to avoid writing "std::vector" repeatedly).
They go into specifics if you look for them - https://wayve.ai/technology/

It's a bit marketing-material but lots of stuff to look through there.
That's the (nightly) Allocator::allocate, but the API we were looking at is (stable) GlobalAlloc::alloc

Yes I'm aware that I can ask how long a slice is.
I think the bigger difference is that reading a book allows you to stop, anytime, and think. No other medium allows this. When the story takes an unexpected turn or the author makes a subtle point, in a book you have time to reflect and let it sink in. That's precious, especially in a world where all other media has evolved to overwhelm you with oversimplified pap intended to prevent independent thought. Don't think, just react. But with a book, _you_ control where your focus goes, and nobody else.
Cheap, fast computing can repopulate towns near cities. 45 min as max commute time, with a train going 300kmh an hour gives you revitalized neighborhoods along the whole rail.
Let's see, I was living under the:

- Amiga E
- Assembler (on Amiga)
- perl
- tcl/tk
- javascript
- vbscript
- java
- vba
- c
- c++
- python

rock. Granted at some of those rocks, I just took a quick peek (more like a glance), but a rock with whitespaces being important was, at that moment, new to me!
> The collective/societal solution is that we need to massively increase the density of these cities and improve their infrastructure, but that will in many places require going to war against the NIMBY obstructionists.

The Tokyo solution which we should all follow. It's the only way out of this mess
My understanding is you have to fix this when changing to residential. There are building codes requires to be met for residential housing, and normally that includes openable window space for both ventilation and egress in an emergency. Maybe they'll make an exception for egress, but I doubt they will for ventilation.
It looks like it's the same idea as static Huffman without the variable length part. Comparing it to UTF-8 is pointless, of course - UTF-8 is an universal text representation (whose major selling point is it's also ASCII-compatible and human-readable), and this is pretty much a compression algorithm. It is obvious natural language based text is redundant, so no wonder it's compressible and I am sure a lot of literature exists on which compression works best on which kinds of texts.
> Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. The only things they do good. /s

Meanwhile pressing the "X" button on a maximized window causes the window and the one below to close.
I don't think we ever were at a point in computing were you could buy a high-end (even entry level macbooks have high-end pricing) laptop with the same amount of ram as you could 10 years earlier.

8 GB were the standard back then.
People make this comment after every single m series release. Its true for intel too, worse even. Changes between like 8th and 9th and 10th gen were like nill, small clock bump same igpu even.
There's a good "odd lots" podcast about this[1]. There's another of their podcasts about how apartment zoning rules make it hard to make "family" apartments[2]. Basically you need two egress points, windows that can open, windows in kitches and bedrooms. All of these are directly in contradiction to modern office buildings with open floor plans, fixed windows, shared mechanical systems.

So it may be possible to convert offices into apartments, but it's very expensive and you end up losing a bunch of floor space.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNkLcD3PKyk
[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76IHpt6q9ME
It's the typical case for Bay Area-HQ tech companies, at essentially all levels for Tier-1 companies, higher levels at Tier-2/3 companies, and specialist roles beyond that.

"software engineering" doesn't print money any more than being "in finance" does, you'll make more or less depending on what company you do it for.
What they would do with a space like this in nearly every place on earth except America is make it a marketplace.
You should look into server rack batteries: EG4, SOK etc...
Memory compression isn't magic and isn't exclusive to macOS.
Even simpler, many interior walls are built with studs covered by drywall.

Most able bodied adults can break drwall between the studs. It’s not a particularly strong material.
I think we're getting pretty close to this. The Remarkable 2 tablet is $300, but can't take video input and software support for non-notetaking is near non-existent. There's even a keyboard available. Boox and Hisense are also making e-ink tablets/phones for reasonable prices.
People are leaving California because it's too expensive. It's nice to internalize externalities. But if the result is that people leave then it's not really solving the problem. You've just shifted the emissions to Texas. Same for manufacturing that goes to China.
No new iPad Mini? :(
Just got be careful with the “how to improve” part. In my experience as an interviewee sometimes it becomes a regular algorithmic interview. A couple times I found some N+1 queries or inner loops and was asked to “fix it”, which might just turn into leetcode.

The best code review interviews are the ones where there is a healthy amount of actual code, with a handful of functions and classes, some badly named variables, bad comments, some misleading code paths, couple bad patterns, etc… the worst ones are a non-optimal solution and you’re asked to make it optimal. That’s just leetcode disguised as “code review”.
what do you mean by code search engine? and hows it compare to phind?
Sal Khan on why Khan Academy is a non-profit [video]
Who wrote this? "A fourth of the power", what happened to a quarter of the power?
Tablets are the perfect form factor for coding because you can easily mount them in an ergonomic position like this: https://mgsloan.com/posts/comfortable-airplane-computing/

Most laptops have terrible keyboards so I'd be using an external one either way.
When your teacher criticizes you for not reading the boring book he/she ordered you to read, you stop enjoying reading and stop reading.

I've read more books than most people, I think. I certainly was in the top percentile by the time I was 18.

I never once read a book start-to-finish that a teacher assigned to me. When I had a book on my desk that I went out of my way to find at the library on one side and then some random book my teacher thought was good on the other side, I picked my book every time. I'd half-heartedly skim through their book and struggle my way through reading quizzes. The only saving graces were Cliff's Notes, film versions, or if the teacher outright read us the book out loud.
AMD gpus have "Adaptive Backlight Management" which reduces your screen's backlight but then tweaks the colors to compensate. For example, my laptop's backlight is set at 33% but with abm it reduces my backlight to 8%. Personally I don't even notice it is on / my screen seems just as bright as before, but when I first enabled it I did notice some slight difference in colors so its probably not suitable for designers/artists. I'd 100% recommend it for coders though.
I had an eccentric Maths teacher at school who used to stare out of the window and make odd claims. One was that he was running a roadworks business using telekinetic powers, and all the people in hi-vis jackets were merely scarecrows.
Google has the concept of a mini-design doc called a "One-pager"

In 2018, the template for this "One-pager" was two pages long
When it works, sure. You don't generally sleep for extended periods in an office though, so would probably notice it getting stuffy. Sleeping or bedridden people might not notice or be able to easily do something about it though if oxygen levels drop.
The same breakdowns happen with slow roadworks. It’s just that the cost of taking 3 months longer isn’t factored in. Me sitting in a jam is an externalised cost that they don’t care about.
I think plug in hybrids are the best compromise we could ask for at this point given current infrastructure. If we see a large public investment in charging, I think we would be seeing electric car adoption across the board. But until that happens, PHEVs are a good deal.
I hear it is 2x to 3x that much depending on time of day in Santa Clara. Also, people built solar when there were different rules. The new rules make it much less advantageous.
Didn't have to look long to find a comment mirroring how I feel about these devices. To me it feels like they're just adding power to an artificially castrated device I can barely do anything with. See no reason to upgrade from my original iPad Pro that's not really useful for anything. Just an overpowered device running phone software.
He meant 2Wh/$.
Laptops have always been trading size for upgradeability and other factors, and soldering everything is the way to make them tiny. If you ask me they've gotten too extreme in size. The first laptops were way too bulky, but they hit a sweet spot around 2005-2010, being just thick enough to hold all those D-Sub connectors (VGA, serial, etc).

And soldering stuff to the board is the default way to make something when upgradeability isn't a feature.
Landlording of single-family homes especially is much more akin to capital investment than small business.

A landlord who lives in one unit of a 40 unit apartment building that he owns is closer to the small business, especially if he provides the maintenance.

The nice thing about the small business is that the profit is practically capped - once the owner has "everything he could want" he will basically stop trying to get more. But shareholder corporations never hit that point.
The phrase AI PC used by Intel and AMD is about having an NPU like in the Intel Ultra chips. These are ML only things, and can run without activating the GPU.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/23998215/intel-core-ultr...
I believe that AI-powered generative search will shine in many verticals, especially in developer-related scenarios. In this use case, I trust that the tool you have carefully designed should be more useful than perplexity.
If venvs were a reasonable solution here, presumably the pyspread authors would have included them in the installation instructions. Instead they just say to "pip install", which predictably does not work for most people.
It sounds a bit unfair to tell someone that "they're the problem" when they followed the official installation instructions to the letter. I would agree in classifying this as another case of python developers being unable to provide a working way to install their software (if code that the average person can't even get to execute can even be called "software".)
It seems that US government was buying too much into tech hypes at the turn of the millenium. Around the same period PS2 exports were also restricted [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...
Shapps says will 'take some time' to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack
Grant Shapps says it will ‘take some time’ to conclude who was to blame for cyber-attack on armed forces payroll – as it happened
Defence secretary makes statement after 270,000 payroll records belonging to members of Britain’s armed forces been exposed to hackers.
That's a very important point. I'm glad you know that living inside or closer to a city gives you access to what's important to your life. I don't know how old you are; I'm not sure that it matters, but I found that as I aged, culture in the form of restaurants, nightlife, etc., became much less important, and I enjoyed being around fewer people.
Sorry - should have been specific in top-level comment (cant edit now). I was referring to this one: https://github.com/aspiers/stow/issues/33

Basically, the --dotfiles option was not working with directories so you had to have things that look like this: lazygit/.config/lazygit and now it looks like: lazygit/dot-config/lazygit.

Really a small issue that bugged me forever - shouldn't have made it seem like it was core a problem with stow!
Funny. Exactly that stuff is the only reason I've ever entered a Starbucks.

Venti!

But TBH one can do that with better coffee, caramel sirup, some crushed ice from the fridge, and even spray cream out of a can for much less money, just not 'on-demand' and anywhere/anytime.

Also, too much (spray) cream and caramel in Venti amounts can't be that good for your body.
TinyMUSH (which is somewhere between TinyMUD and TinyMUSE if my historic memory is correct): https://github.com/TinyMUSH/TinyMUSH
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/quick-answer.html
I may be overlooking a downside but it always seemed obvious to me office and apartment buildings should be intermixed. Separating living, shopping and office into different zones always felt strikingly absurd. I am happy to live in a place where it's not the case so my office building is less than 15 minutes walking from my home, as well as a supermarket, a swimming pool, a forest, a university and everything else one can imagine wanting in their life.
NHTSA sends Tesla data request as it investigates Autopilot recall
You're not really supposed to pip install applications. pip is a developer tool. There is pipx which is great, but I still think it's a developer tool. It's annoying when projects say to pip install stuff. It's never the right thing to do.
Which one is $5/lb?

https://www.costco.ca/coffee-tea.html?sortBy=item_location_p...

I'm no expert on shit coffee. But even Folgers is $6.3 lb. And is Folgers even 100% real coffee?

It tastes like it was extracted once before and freeze dried and something added to it.

Plus Costco might be subsidizing their coffee the way they do their rotisserie chicken.
There are plenty of things that people would be happy to do with cheap urban space in deep/narrow apartment conversions in post-WWII office buildings. I'd enjoy having a workshop and lots of bicycle parking.

The problem is that the current owners of these buildings, as well as their creditors, made plans based on these buildings being expensive urban space. The same is true of city governments, which often have budgets dependent on city center commercial space paying a lot of property taxes. It will take years, and likely lawsuits and ownership changes, for people to accept that prices for these buildings are unlikely to recover.
Same here. I found the biggest beneficiary of a design doc was my own thinking process (Xoogler here)
Someone has to pay for it, time, money, wait for it whatever.

I love working with technical people who ask why and think about more optimal paths.

On the other hand I'll listen to the same folks complain about some random app being stinky (I don't disagree) and wonder "Yeah but you going to pay more for that burrito so that company can hire folks to write it natively on every platform?" No you're not ...

I know our customers at times aren't willing to pay / wait for the optimal path, and their customers aren't, so I get it.
I think this is a very common feeling for founders and indie hackers when we come across a competitor on Google that seems to be further along or has raised more money.

But I'd argue that we probably shouldn't worry too much, and use two startups that YC has invested in as an example: Loops and Resend.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
I used to live in one too (not yours). It's weird how often people would tell me that this was infeasible and impossible to do it at all.

I also almost bought one that was in a converted school. I'm sure some people could come up with reasons for why that is impossible too.

Zoning is the only absolute impediment I can think of and that is a self imposed one.
Everyone waits for AAAi to arrive so that indy gaming can have that polished shell.
That’s an interesting idea. If there’s enough room between floors already, I wonder if you could squeeze in some horizontal periscope skylights without removing floors. Just need to occasionally send someone out to scrub the exterior window like in that show Silo
On the other hand, with a reflow station everything becomes modular and repairable.

I do hope that a more widespread usage of compressed attachment gives us some development in that area where projects that were promising modular devices failed (remember those 'modular' phone concepts? available physical interconnects were one of the failures...). Sockets for BGAs have existed for a while, but were not really end-user friendly (not that LGA or PGA are that amazing), so maybe my hope is misplaced and many-contact connections will always be worse than direct attachment (be it PCB or SiP/SoC/CPU shared substrate).
Tangentially related. I was trying to describe to a friend of mine how being discerning after a few years of experience means I do less work (or toil) for a better outcome, and why it's worth the higher salary I command.

Young me would've enjoyed the process of building a thing, ignoring problems like maintenance burden, how fragile or brittle the new tool is, lessons learned from the old tool, etc. etc. (you know how it goes)

Current me will take a task and mull on it. No pen to paper for _days_, preferring a minor adaptation to the existing process, or discovering that the desire was misguided in the first place. The work not done and wisdom to not do it is worth its weight in gold.
Socket AM4 had a really good run. Maybe we just have to pressure manufacturers to make old-socket variations of modern processors.

The technical differences between sockets aren't usually huge. Upgrade the memory standard here, add or remove PCIe lanes there. Using new cores with an older memory controller may or may not be doable, but it's quite simple to not connect all the PCIe lanes the die supports.
Those are requirements, not metrics.
Apple Announces the M4 Chip with Up to 10 CPU Cores
Does anyone know how to find good solar contractors? Every time I seem to search for professionals I find a bunch of blogs about superficial details about solar installations instead of someone to actually install a system.
Atom, like most recent editors like VS Code etc., are just clones of Sublime Text with just lots of bloat and JavaScript tech.

I'll just stick to Sublime Text.
Yeah, you could have a device with the same form factor and UI that also has a normal terminal and can compile its own code. It’s ok for my personal use case but it’s a big limitation and rules out the device for many people.
So long as it lets me play some of the less-intense 00's-10's era PC games in some sort of virtualization framework at decent framerates one day, and delivers great battery life as a backend web dev workstation-on-the-go the next, it's a good chip. The M2 Pro does.
* Bloomberg terminal

* Vim ;)
Thanks for releasing, I've been looking for something exactly like this to help plan out my PCT hike. Google Earth Pro for linux has become less usable with each release.
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They make ultrasonic jewelry cleaners for $75 that should work just fine. You're referencing something that is intended to be used with hundreds of gallons of water.
Save? Absolutely not.

Evolve? Yes.
I have no idea who's down voting you. They were lying through their teeth about CPU performance back then.

A PC half the price was smoking their top of the line stuff.
I do admit the "reliance on swap" thing is speculation on my part :)

My experience is that I can still tell when the OS is unhappy when I demand more RAM than it can give. MacOS is still relatively responsive around this range, which I just attributed to super fast swapping. (I'd assume memory compression too, but I usually run into this trouble when working with large amounts of poorly-compressible data.)

In either case, I know it's frustrating when someone is confidently wrong but you can't properly correct them, so you have my apologies